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📙Amy Tanner Thiriot's "Slavery in Zion" (@uofupress.bsky.social) offers a critical intervention in the historiography of American religion, race, and archival recovery. Review by Editor @jstuart.bsky.social in Mormon Studies Review Vol. 13: scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/msr/arti...
Today we remember Wesley Taylor who was described as a faithful African American member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who lived in Utah towards the end of his life.
I can't decide if they should go with "the great physician" or "heal thyself" first. Lots of options!
American West friends:
Reminder to follow the BYU Redd Center for Western Studies (@byureddcenter.bsky.social) that I help run & the monthly author-interview Writing Westward Podcast (@writingwestward.bsky.social) that I host & produce. If I have 3.8K followers, they should have at least as many!
Today we remember Philida "Phyllis" Jacoba Elizabeth February Daniels Sampson who was baptized a Latter-day Saint in South Africa in 1909. Phyllis and her family were of mixed racial ancestry, or “coloured” in South African terminology.
😂😂😂 I love them. What can I say?
I was consulted recently by an editor of an interdisciplinary journal who was ready to retract a paper based on hallucinated citations. It’s a real research integrity problem, and it’s arriving in humanities and social sciences publishing. (It’s already been a problem in STEM.)
congrats!!
In n Out fries are good
Paul is thorough, sharp, and very easy to work with. Recommended!!
.@katedavisphd's article on Mormon influencers and performativity anchors my lecture on modern Utah (what is real, what's not, what influencers sell to others). It's so smart. Everyone should read it!
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🚨New Episode🚨
A conversation with BYU history prof. David-James Gonzales about his new book, "Breaking Down the Walls of Segregation: Mexican American Grassroots Politics and Civil Rights in Orange Country, California" (@academic.oup.com 2025).
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If you need a chair or commentator for an ASCH submission, please let me know! I love to do it and it helps with travel funding requests.
New Podcast from former YSAR member Melissa Borja, produced by Brad Onishi!
One Million Neighbors looks at “how American faith communities mobilized to do the impossible: resettling more than a million Southeast Asian refugees, in the face of widespread hostility”
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Check out Arab Americana, an awesome new journal founded by Dr. Edward E. Curtis IV! The journal is currently issuing a call for papers for their first issue.
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Today I'm teaching about the 2002 Winter Olympics (Utah History) and the ethics and history of DNA and Indigenous communities (Genetic Genealogy, centering the work of Kim Tallbear).
I love that my job requires that I be endlessly curious.
Writing this book will be the death of me.
Kris is the best of the best. As a person. As a scholar. All of it.
Congratulations to Princeton Religion in the Americas graduate student @kriswright.bsky.social on the successful defense of her outstanding dissertation, "Ceaseless Reproduction: Mormon Women and the Formation of Religious Authority." I can't wait to see it in its future book form!
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In Mormon Studies Review Vol. 13, @mariahlwellman.bsky.social reviews the Hulu reality show "The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives." cc: @jstuart.bsky.social scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/msr/arti...
Also worth reading - this morning's @nytopinion.nytimes.com op-ed by @marthasjones.bsky.social and @katemasur.bsky.social. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/o...
.@paul-a-anthony.bsky.social FOIA'd FBI sources on Mormon fundamentalists in the 1940s to think about the use of archives to reconstruct marginalized lives. Super interesting research--and Paul's writing chops are on full display:
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If you’re on the fence about applying, yhis is your sign to do it!
It’s joyful and invigorating.
It's out in the world! The first journal article actually based on my dissertation research and not just some wild hare I decided to chase into print. Thanks especially to @jstuart.bsky.social and Cristina Gagliano for making it happen.
Bri Romanello on LDS Latina parenting of LGBTQ+ children: scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/msr/arti...
She's so smart!
Cristina and I learned so much working with authors on this issue! Here's to one highlight per day:
Kris Wright addresses affect in lived religion, using Mormonism as a case study: “The Impress of the Impression”: An Affective Approach to Lived Religion
